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Having had such an amazing time in Peru, I was sad to be leaving Cusco and the Peruvian Andes but looking forward to the next leg of my journey. Two countries down, four to go! I took the 10 hour Bamba Hop On/Hop Off bus between Cusco and Puno, which sits on the edge of the world's highest navigable lake (Lake Titicaca) and then from Puno to the …

Thankfully the bus to Bolivia promised to be better than our experience of getting to Juliaca. We had booked our tickets with Edgar Adventures travel agency who promised a good bus complete with someone to help us across the border from Peru to Bolivia. But we got off to a rocky start as they told us that pick up was at 7:30 and this was actually …

When you arrive into La Paz, you come from the outskirts like any city and it doesn't look like much. Then you turn a corner and start coming down the hill and suddenly there is the city; set in a valley the city sprawls across the mountains, as far as the eye can see pretty much, it's quite an impressive site.

Priority one today was to book a Cycle Tour on La Carretera de los Yungas, more commonly known as the World's Most Dangerous Road aka Death Road. Gravity Assisted Mountain Biking Tours had been recommended to us for having the best and safest equipment, also it's owned by a Kiwi, so it must be okay.

Mike and I came to Bolivia to climb Mount Illimani, a 6439-meter high snow peak in the Andes Mountains and the highest peak of the Cordillera Real sub-range. This is several hundred meters higher than the highest mountain I've climbed to date -- Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa (5895 meters).

Arriving last night in La Paz, I wondered if I was just knackered after being up for so long, and that was why I was so out of breath climbing 4 flights of stairs, but this morning I had a headache that pretty much lasted all day. The altitude does make a massive difference. This must be what it's like for fat people; just walking around makes your …

A few thoughts...... Our La Paz trip started as an afterthought, but one I am very glad we had. We had attempted to visit Bolivia 6 years ago, only to find out that the National Airline had gone bankrupt and canceled all flights. There being no other way to get to La Paz, we decided to cancel that trip. 6 years later, we find ourselves in Arica in …

Monday 30 June: we said goodbye to Peru and hello to Bolivia, country number 6 for me. It was a very easy border crossing which was good because Izabela has had some troubles coming through that border before. Sadly it was the last truck day for David, Lynn and Bernhard. We spent the afternoon playing cards until we arrived into La Paz. We stopped …

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... staying at were very friendly and helpful (gave me maps and ideas of where to go). I wandered the town visiting Plaza San Francisco, PlazaMurillo and the backpacker area around Sagarnaga. The art museum was closed that day so didn't visit there. In the ...

... the altitude and the steep, cobbled streets meant that we were frequently left gasping for air.
As we wandered around the PlazaMurillo area, which is home to the National Congress, Presidential Palace and cathedral, we couldn't help but notice, with ...

... ). With a population of nearly 1.3 million inhabitants, LaPaz is now a modern city with few colonial buildings left except around PlazaMurillo, which at 3636 meter above sea level, marks the very heart of the city where the government buildings and the ...

... is getting to know us very well!), Parque Central and many museos. There are few colonial buildings left, only the PlazaMurillo has formal gardens, a huge graceful cathedral and the presidential palace in Italian renaissance style. What makes this place ...

... various government buildings, churches, and other places of interest and finally our driver drops us off at the main plaza – PlazaMurillo. Here we find what we typically find in Latino plazas: some kind of government building where the President ...

... of the same name on my flight here to Bolivia. And we thought our politics were screwed up (well, rightly so). Even though PlazaMurillo was within walking distance of the hotel, the walk was uphill and I decided not to exert myself. I’m still ...

September 5, 2016 Room 1614, Hotel Casa Grande LaPaz, Bolivia The flight from Cochabamba to LaPaz only takes 35 minutes. The taxi ride from the airport to the hotel took around 40. I asked the guy if he had a meter before I got in and he said ...

... and hours every day (and LaPaz is quite hilly so I like to pretend I burned double the calories.) We stopped by the PlazaMurillo the first day which matched the city in craziness because I have never seen more pigeons in one place in my entire life. ...

... was going on apace there, so I avoided walking next to people. I looked at the church from the outside. Then I went up to PlazaMurillo, the old 'centre', which had nice buildings flanking it, and far too many pigeons. Next, I went into the museum of ...

... music is there every time. HOSTEL POSADA EL CARRETERO: Calle Catacora 1056 entre Yanacocha y Junin 2285271, cerca de laplazaMurillo There, I met a mother and daughter from Medellin, Colombia called, Fanny and Laura, they were adorable. We ...